Back to the pool

Chaffinch
Had a short woodland pool session before the deluge. Scuppered that again. water everywhere after today.
This shows how the angle of the bird and the hide distance work well on a shallow depth of field.
D200
640 ISO Sigma 100-300
80th @f8
Cheers
JohnR

Nice portrait of this beautiful male, like the ripples in the water which gives the image a sense of movement for me,nice detail in the bird+droplets of water on the birds back

Well up to your usual very high standards.

Thanks very much both.
To everyone-
Sorry I am not commenting as much as normal but my connection has been appalling just lately. Something wrong somewhere.( Not on broadband though )
JohnR

Knob on as usual John

There are a couple of dark spots in the water on the upper right hand side which might be better cloned out.


Sorry its not too technical a reply





Ian

Yeah, lovely job John! Was just going to mention the dark spot before reading Ian's reply. Not much more to say other than "nice"

Lewis.

I like your pool shots a lot, John. The eyec ontact in this one is very nice.

Despite the DBs John it's a very nicely composed shot with lots of detail right down to the water droplets on the back of the bird. Great colours and it all works very well for me. Nice one..

Brett

Needs more DOF particularly in the foreground, different viewpoint would solve this, I suspect the easiest way, would be some pool redesign. Otherwise a very nice capture.

A good sharp image John.

Not sure what happenened, but I was unablle to leave a comment earlier as the 'Reply' box had vanished for a while. It seems to have magically reappeared now though

Lovely Chaffinch shot John. I wonder how it would look cropped to landscape with the bird looking into the image?

Tony

Personally I like the over the shoulder pose. Lovely complimentary colours in the pool too, and nice feather detail John. Nice one!

Maybe a couple of dust bunnies top right.

Fran

Good pool shot again John. Lovely colurs of the bird and up to your usual.

Major